Platoon (Special Edition) From:Tom Berenger , Willem Dafoe , Keith David , Johnny Depp , Kevin Dillon , SHEEN,CHARLIE , MGM (Video & DVD) ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SHEEN,CHARLIE
EAN: 0027616862815
Format: Anamorphic
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Special Edition
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 25 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 510 hundredths-inches
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-06-05
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-12-24
Product Description:
Winner* of 4 Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Picture, and based on the first-hand experience of OscarÂ(r)-winning** director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. "Harrowingly realistic and completely convincing" (Leonard Maltin), it is "a dark, unforgettable memorial" (The Washington Post) to every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who, upon his arrival in Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers (OscarÂ(r)-nominated*** Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other, the conflict, chaos and hatred permeate Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value life.
Customer Reviews:
 Vietnam. FUBAR!!, 2008-10-06
I've read a couple of reviews that downgraded this film as being unrealistic. Of, course only the most sensational aspects of the war are portrayed. Duh, it's a movie. I wasn't over there. The war mercifully ended weeks before I would have been. I do have numerous friends who were. Many will not really talk about it (just like my dad who served 4 years in WWII and saw heavy action. Only after his death have I realized how scarred he was by that experience). I know a guy who used to tell me horror stories similar to those portrayed in this movie. 10 years ago he would tell these stories like jokes and laugh like crazy. I would think "That is one hardcore SOB!" Nowadays he can't talk about Vietnam without breaking down and sobbing and crying. I can see now that he has been living in hell for 30+ years. Maybe this film is unrealistic in the fact that this wasn't the average soldier's experience. I think about 50,000 or so just got killed. This crap did happen though.
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